Jnnuary 10, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



HPPDERCITY or HARDWQ0EffiRi0DUCTI© 



Pecan Hickory 



{Continued front last issue) 



Few woods are at a greater disadvantage than pecan when 

 statistics are quoted. It makes no showing at all. So far as 

 there are any figures to be found, they are so near nothing 

 that they need not be quoted. 



That condition is not due to the total lack of use of pecan. 

 It is a matter of common knowledge that it is sawed into 

 lumber in considerable quantities and of course somebody 

 uses it. The trouble is, it goes along with hickory and is 

 measured and counted as such, and that explains why it is 

 not named in reports of mill output and factory use. 



This is pfima facie evidence that it gives satisfactory serv- 

 ice for the most part. Were it not so, the time w^ould have 

 come long ago when the savirnills w^ould have been forced to 

 quit cutting the wood. No one claims that it is the equal of 

 hickory in strength, stiffness, and toughness; but it is not so 

 far beneath as many persons have supposed. Deficiency in 

 toughness may be accepted as its worst defect, and in that 

 property it is lacking only in comparison with some of its 

 tough relatives in the hickory family. It measures above black 

 ash in most of its qualities, being lighter, stronger, and more 

 elastic. It is more elastic than white ash while falling less than 

 two per cent below it in elasticity; but to make up for this, it 

 is twelve pounds lighter per cubic foot than white ash. 



Similar comparisons might be made with a number of 

 other well known woods in common use, and pecan will stand 

 well in every comparison. It is a wood which has not been 

 accorded the credit it deserves. 



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